Autodesk Shape Modeling and T-Splines plug-ins for Rhino

nogeelen · ‎05-31-2022

Hi.

I recently got the message from Autodesk that from July 2022 it will not be possible any longer to activate my T-splines and Shapemodeling plug-in licenses.

Now I understand that these are old products and I am sure your legal teams have it all written in stone in the EULA, but I have to say that this is EXTREMELY disappointing and from my point of view flat out bad behaviour from Autodesk.

First of all these are PERPETUAL licenses I acquired and by all means in the not so distant future will not be able to use any more (these licenses tend to require reactivation from time to time, this can be triggered by a simple crash of rhino or your computer)

Then it has to be said that Autodesk did not offer any newer upgrades for these products. They simply can not be substituted by newer versions or other Autodesk Products.

You may as well lough at me for wanting to use 8 year old plug-ins for Rhino (Rhino version 5 that is) .

I don't care. For my workflow this software represents a real value and I paid for a perpetual license.

I cannot feel anything else but betrayed by Autodesk.

nogeelen · ‎06-12-2022

No answer is an answer too, I guess.

Anonymous · ‎06-12-2022

you didn’t ask a question

this was just a rant

nogeelen · ‎06-13-2022

Sorry, I didn't know we were on Jeopardy.

There are lots of implicit questions in my initial post, but reading comprehension or lack of imagination is not my subject here.

So let me instead spell it out for you:

Why does Autodesk think it is okay to make a legally acquired perpetual license unusable to the user?

If Autodesk does want to stop the process of license authentication, why don't you remove the requirement for authentication alltogether and leave holders of those licenses (and connected serial numbers and codes) free to install and use their programs as they want?

BTW, calling my very specific concerns "just a rant" isn't exactly the response one would expect from a company caring for ist customers.

Sorry, just realized you are probably no Autodesk official(is that right?), so scrap that last "BTW"

Back to: "no answer is an answer too"

mdavis22569 · ‎06-13-2022

@nogeelen

It wasn't really a question..

Couple of options:

Put a support ticket in:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/customer-service/account-management/users-software/support-options

or the feedback page:

https://www.autodesk.com/company/contact-us/product-feedback

I will say, a lot of the time, they stop because users don't have PC's that aren't supported anymore. Or the plug in software isn't available anymore.

Nothing can last forever or we'd all be on Commandore 64's still

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